The performance of reading

"In this essay, Peter Kivy argues that there are distinct analogies between "silent" reading and performance. Readers have an "experience" when they read silently to themselves akin to the experience one would have had when the rhapsode recited Homer to the citizens of Plato's Athens. Kivy makes the case for a deeper understanding and appreciation of literary works by suggesting that readers are performers of the works they read, and their performances recitations to the "inner ear.""--Jacket.

Year

2006

Language

English

Series

New directions in aesthetics -- 3

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Editions

4

Pages

155

ISBN

9781405188234

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